Proof that part of Brexit impact assessment was actually copied and pasted from Wikipedia

If parts of the Brexit impact assessments published yesterday read a lot like they’d been lifted from the internet, that’s because they had been – and we can prove it.

We reported yesterday on the embarrassing simplicity of the documents David Davis once described as “excruciating detailed”.

MPs and campaigners suggested there could only be one explanation – parts of the reports had been plagarised from Wikipedia:

I see ministers have published their Brexit impact assessments. Looks to me like they've just printed off Wikipedia pages on bits of the economy. I know it's the end of term, but we can do better than this.

Jo spikessays:

Steve Hillssays:

I find it unbelievable that Damian Green has been – allegedly – sacked for lying, but davis, who has lied, and in admitting it has told us how incompetent he is, and now compounds that offence, is still in office. But in an age where something like trump can behave as he does I suppose it’s becoming the new normal. (OK, so us presidents are all but irremovable; that just makes it worse.)

Christopher Evanssays:

Green was sacked for lying when the action he was both lawful and relatively trivial. Davis has lied in a matter that affects the whole UK and EU, yet is allowed to stay. That brings the whole of Parliament into disgrace.

Anonymoussays:

One of the first things we were told at university was not to source information from Wikipedia as it was not reliable, and therefore would not be considered a credible source from which to reference. If we used it, we were told, we would fail that assignment!!!!